A day after announcing a second indictment against McWane Inc., federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a longtime McWane manager had agreed to cooperate with their investigation into environmental and safety violations at McWane, one of the...

May 27, 2004, Thursday

The New York Times and ''Frontline,'' the PBS Television news program, have won the 2004 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for a joint project last year that traced injuries and deaths of factory workers to their employers' disregard of...

A maintenance worker was crushed to death Thursday night at a foundry in Elmira, N.Y., the 10th fatality since 1995 at plants owned by McWane Inc., an Alabama-based maker of cast-iron pipe with one of the nation's most extensive records of workplace...

Senior managers of a New Jersey foundry owned by McWane Inc., the nation's largest manufacturer of cast-iron pipe, conspired for years to violate workplace safety and environmental laws and then obstructed repeated government inquiries by lying,...

McWane Inc., a major manufacturer of cast-iron pipes and one of the nation's most persistent violators of workplace safety and environmental laws, is the target of a federal criminal investigation, according to law enforcement officials and current...

The Bush administration's belated determination to enforce workplace safety rules against flagrant violators may be the best one can hope for from an administration that seems allergic to tight regulation of business. But the new enforcement policy...